Stuart Broad has revealed the extent of the anti-corruption crackdown in cricket and declared: "There's no excuse."

When he first joined up with the England team in 2006 as an impressionable 19-year-old, Broad had his head thrust into a pile of ICC anti-corruption material before he had even laced up his spikes.

Thanks to the ICC there were DVDs, books and lectures for the inexperienced fast bowler to soak up. Broad said: "As England players, the ICC and ECB are brilliant towards us.

We're educated on this sort of anticorruption stuff and there's an anticorruption guy around the changing rooms all the time.

"I don't think any player could ever have an excuse to say 'I didn't know' or 'We weren't educated'.

"We get hand-outs, handbooks and with the amount of books I have from the ICC at home, full of information, there's no excuse as players.

"As soon as you come into the England team, the ICC get hold of you. You're put through this DVD about anti-corruption - everything you're not allowed to do, everything you are allowed to do.

That was five years ago for me. But every year you are reminded and get bullet points of what to do and what not to do."

Educated at Oakham School in Rutland, Broad is the epitome of an articulate and thoughtful sportsman but not everyone has had his privileged and upbringing. What about those players such as 18-year-old Mohammad Amir - pictured above with his fellow accused Mohammed Asif and Salman Butt - who come from more difficult backgrounds and might not devour reading material like Broad? "I don't know what other boards do," said Broad. "But that's the responsibility that they have to take to make sure every player is educated.

"It's not all reading. The DVDs are very watchable - taking you back to when you were five or six, how clear it is."

Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi agreed with Broad about the education process and indicated that Amir would have been warned of the dangers at least three times ahead of two T20 World Cups and the Champions Trophy last year.

Afridi said: "People from the ICC talk to us about these things and we all know how to deal with it.

"If there are any problems then you speak to the manager."

Despite the distractions of the past week or so, Broad and his team-mates sent out an important message on Sunday - that when it comes to on-field matters their minds are clear.

There is no sympathy for the Pakistani players and their situation, just a need to get on with the business of winning cricket matches.

"You can get distracted by everything going on," said Broad who will be looking to extend Pakistan's misery in tonight's second Twenty20 match at Cardiff.

"But at the end of the day, that doesn't help you bowl the ball and hit it out of the park.

"After the Twenty20 World Cup, Sunday night was a good statement that we want to take this team forward.

"It would be easy for us to sit back and say 'We have won a Twenty20 World Cup and that's brilliant'.